posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | November 7, 2008 | leave a comment
An excellent powerpoint giving technical background on some newer approaches for websites attacks..
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | October 23, 2008 | 2 comments
Allowing inbound links to fail on nonexistent pages is a marketing crime.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | October 19, 2008 | leave a comment
If advanced database topics quicken your pulse, check out OpenSQL Camp.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | September 21, 2008 | 7 comments
Our blog just crossed the 100,000 mark on spam blog comments.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | September 19, 2008 | 19 comments
Posting my solution on how to export starred posts from Google Reader.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | September 19, 2008 | leave a comment
Never send fatal errors to outside world.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | September 9, 2008 | 6 comments
Driving in this morning, three stories on NPR caught my ear as having a paid search angle.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | September 3, 2008 | 3 comments
I’ve been using Google’s new browser for a day and a half now. I like it.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | September 2, 2008 | 5 comments
In the next few days, Google will release an open source browser named Chrome.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | July 16, 2008 | 2 comments
Our thanks to the MSN engineers for the many calls and emails clarifying the V5.1 API docs. These are places we hit snags.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | June 23, 2008 | 7 comments
Here’s a new RKGDuck video showing how in a couple minutes you can write a powerful filter to assist with cleaning up keyword lists.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | June 22, 2008 | 1 comment
For the third year, we’re proud to have sponsored the annual North American Perl conference, a great geek conference which occurred last week in Chicago.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | May 30, 2008 | 2 comments
Online retailers seeking more agility in their web development should give “Getting Real” by 37Signals a thoughtful read.
Crazy idea for a e-comm architecture: render the whole site in static HTML each evening, with prices and quantities accurate as of when written. Then use tiny fast AJAX calls throughout the day to update only those few bytes on each page that really change.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | April 21, 2008 | 4 comments
If you’re benefiting from the Open Source Movement, give something back.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | April 16, 2008 | 5 comments
I’m fascinated by Google’s recent announcement of Google App Engine.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | April 16, 2008 | 1 comment
I’m honored to be invited back to MIT to speak on “The Business And Mathematics of Pay-Per-Click Bidding” May 30, 2008, at MIT’s Tang Center.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | March 31, 2008 | 1 comment
Here’s a video from Steve Souder speaking about site speed at Google in November.
posted by Engineering | March 30, 2008 | 3 comments
Shhhh… RKG engineers crack Google’s PR server.
Category Code, Fun, Google | Tagged 1600-Amphitheatre-Parkway, android, april-fools, Code, Fun, Google, hack, mad-libs, open-social, security-hole, sitemap, war-games
If you’re a retailer running a home-grown e-commerce stack, your engineers will enjoy and benefit from Cal Henderson’s “Building Scalable Web Sites”.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | March 20, 2008 | 6 comments
I recorded my NEMOA presentation and posted video.
Category Business, Code, Comparison Shopping, Google, Miscellany, SEM, SEO, Social Media, Web Marketing, Website Design, Yahoo | Tagged Blogging, Books, Business, Code, Comparison Shopping, Google, jump-cut, jumpcut, Links, Miscellany, nemoa, nemoa-conference, new-england-mail-order-association, SEM, SEO, Social Media, Web Effectiveness, Website Design, Yahoo, youtube
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | January 29, 2008 | leave a comment
Yahoo open-sources some truly amazing code, such as YUI.
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | January 27, 2008 | 9 comments
I demonstrate how RKG Duck can cluster keywords into related buckets.
Category Code, Google | Tagged ad-group, ad-grouping, build-adgroup, Code, Google, perl, rkg-duck, rkgduck, stem, stemming, stop-words
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | January 24, 2008 | leave a comment
Amusing: hacking Google analytics via Yahoo pipes.
Category Code, Google, Web Marketing, Yahoo | Tagged blue-ridge-internworks, brnets, Code, ga, ga-api, Google, Google-Analytics, google-anlytics-api, hackszine, hackzine, jeff-cornejo, make, makezine, mashup, orielly, Web Effectiveness, Yahoo, yahoo-pipes
posted by Alan Rimm-Kaufman | January 23, 2008 | 5 comments
Yesterday on SearchEngineLand we announced the opensourcing of RKG Duck, a powerful tool which lets you run filters on the Windows clipboard.
Category Code, RKG , SEM, SEO | Tagged clipboard, Code, cut-paste, perl-filter, RKG , searchengineland, SEM, SEO, transformation, windows